Social engineering

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What Wikipedia says

In the context of information security, social engineering is the use of psychological pressure to influence people to perform actions or divulge confidential information.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Social engineering (security)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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